Mud guard for vehicles



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Application filed January 2, 1926, SeriaLNo. 78,940, and in Germany November 7, i924.

This invention relates to mud-guards for vehicles, especially for motor vehiclesyand it has more particularly reference to mu'dguards of the kind comprising a rigid skirt of metal or the like attached to the vehicle frame and a dust and mud catching member carried by the said skirt and made of a flexillollg material such as rubber, leather or the The invention has for its primary object to provide the flexible catching member with a plurality of beads serving to stifien the member and used for connecting it with the skirt which in turn is provided with means adapted to interengage with the beads.

According to the invention, the skirt preferably has fastened to it short of its free edge a sheet metal supporting plate arranged to extend for a certain distance underneath the flexible catching member. This supporting plate forms with the edge porton of the skirt a resilient groove wherein to receive an edge bead of the flexible catching member, and at its free edge it engages a groove formed by another head of the catching member or it is provided with a groove adapted to embrace a bead of suitable contour.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide the outer edge of the flexible catching member with a lining of metal fittings designed to protect the flexible member against injuries without in any way interfering with its flexibility.

The mud-guard according to the invention is of a great strength and of a simple construction, its parts may be readily assembled and disconnected and nevertheless are securely held together in their operative position.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

.Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the front of amotor vehicle showing my mud-guard in position; v

Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the mud-guard on an enlarged scale;

Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the guard shown in Fig. 2, some parts being broken away; I

Figs. 4 and 5 are sections, similar to Fig.

2, of two slightly modified forms.

The mud-guard com rises a dust and mud catching member a of exible material and a sheet metal skirt 6 which is fastened to the vehicle frame in any suitable manner. The catching member a is provided at the underside along its inner edge with a longitudinal bead c. It further has a middle bead 0 the main portion of which extends longitudinally while its end portions extend more or less transversely in opposite directions, see more particularly Fig. 3. The outer edge of the member a is likewise provided with a longitudinal bead 0". Arranged between the beads 0 and e are transverse beads d. All of the beads serve to stiffen the flexible member a. The beads c and c are besides made use of for fastening the member a to the skirt 5. The skirt 12 carries near its free edge a sheet metal supporting plate 12 forming with the skirt 1; a resilient groove 6 designed to receivev and embrace the head 0. The sup porting plate 6 projects for a certain distance below the member a. The outer edge of the plate 6 has a contour corresponding to the path of the bead c and fits in a groove f formed by the-bead 0. The outer edge of the plate b may'also be shaped so as to constitute a grooved portion h adapted to receive and clamp a suitably shaped head 0', as

shown in Fig. 4. In theembodiment illustrated by Fig; 5, the grooved portion h is formed in two parts adapted to clamp between them the bead 0 and to be fastened together by bolts 7' or the like fastening means. While the beads c, c, 0", d are shown as formed'integrally with the member a, theymay alsp be formed separately and fastened to the member a in any suitable manner.

The supporting late 5' may be fastenedtothe skirt 6 by we ding, riveting or bolting or it may be formed integrally with the skirt by pressin The flex1ble member a, and .more particularly its outer edge, is preferably provided with metal fittings 9 designed to protect the flexible member against injuries' These fittings may be in the form of overlapping metal plates or nails fastened in the rubber mass of themember a.

It will further be within the spirit of my invention to establish the connection between the catching member a: and the member 6,

' catching member supported solely. by the skirt said member being of flexible material vide a means for; supporting the member over. the skirt.

2. A mud-guard for vehicles comprising a sheet metal skirt fastened to the vehicle frame and'a flexible catching member carried by the skirt, a plurality of longitudinally and transversely extending beads on the flexible catching member, and resilient grooves-formed by the skirt for receiving and tightly clamping in them some of the beads of the flexible member.

3. A mud-guard for vehicles comprising a rigid skirt fastened to the vehicle frame and a flexible catching member carried by the skirt, longitudinally extending beads on the underside ofthe flexible member at its edges and in its middle, 9. sheet metal supporting plate fastened to the skirt short of 1ts freeedge and arranged to extend for a certain.

lmember, and means at thevfree inner edge of the supporting plate designed to be interengaged with t e middle bead of the flexible member.

4. A mud= ard for vehicles comprising a rigid skirt fastened to the vehicle frame and a flexiblecatc'hin'g member carried by the skirt, stiffening beads on the flexible member, means outhe' skirt adapted to be interengaged with the-said beads for supporting and holding the flexible member, and metal fittings on the outer surface ,of

theflexible memberfor protecting it against injuries. v

In testimony whereof I have signed my nameto this specficatom.

ALEX 

